What India needs is to to comprehensively look at two things
- A proper investigation to understand technical reason behind the crash - a system/sub system failure due to ageing aircraft, a faulty part or a human error as Mig 21s and its trainers are quite unforgiving type aircraft
- To properly allocate and expedite the modernization plan to replace all aged fleet in order to not fall for the trap of a dated aircraft which is at higher acceptable risk in a matrix.
Blaming just Tejas LCA is not a solution. Nor saying getting any other jets is really. We have known Mig 21 and Mig 27s needs replacement from very long. So in a nutshell its a collective failure of government, HAL, our MIC and our industry that we could not chart out a proper plan to replace the retiring fleets or aged fleets and expedite our modernisation plan.
By Gods grace our pilot is safe. But we should wake up to understand the cause and also look at point 1 and 2 more closely.